George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883?1962)
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Papanicolaou was born 13 May 1883 in the city of Kymi on the island of Euboea in Greece. He was the third son of Maria Georgiou and Nikolas Papanicolaou. His father was a doctor and mayor of Kymi. In his youth, Papanicolaou studied literature, philosophy, foreign languages, and he played the violin. After high school in Athens, Greece, he studied medicine at the University of Athens in Athens. In 1904, at the age of twenty-one, he graduated from medical school with honors. In October of the same year, Papanicolaou was drafted into the army for military service and enrolled in the academy for reserve officers. Papanicolaou became assistant surgeon by the time he completed his military duty in August 1906. Rather than return to Kymi as a medical practitioner or in the military as a surgeon, Papanicolaou pursued a doctorate. At the Zoological Institute in Munich, Germany, he began studying the differentiation [2] and determination [3] in sex in Daphnia crustaceans, also called water fleas. He earned his PhD in Zoology from the University of Munich in 1910.
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